AUSTRALIAN CRUISERS
DOMINION VISIT. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Idle ball given by Rear-Admiral B. C. Dalgleish and officers on the Can borra to-night brought to a close a long programme of entertainment in connection with the visit of the Australian Naval Squadron to Wellington. The two cruisers, the Canberra and the Australia, are timed to sail for Cook Strait at 3.30 p.m. to-morrow, when they will carry out strategic exercises in conjunction with two vessels of the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, the Dunedin and the Diomede. At the conclusion of the manoeuvres in Cook Strait on Thursday the two Australian cruisers will sail for Jervis Bay at noon and will proceed /from there to Sydney, being due there on 6th October. On the cruise across the Tasman gunnery and torpedo exercises will be carried out, and both vessels will also undergo full power trial to see what speed can be attained. —(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 27 September 1933, Page 6
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